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Totally disagree... besides, even with just browsing the Internet you will find 99.9&#37; interesting websites, like I just found one a few moments ago, about a company named Puget who were able to submerge PC in mineral oil and the PC still works.

I will agree that there are a huge number of websites that are not useful. It's certainly nowhere near 99.99%, though. But I would guess it is well over 50%.

Some websites are scrapes of good sites, some are simply poorly written made-for-adsense sites, others have may have good intentions but simply are outclassed by other sites on their particular topic.

Over time, we have found that attempts to have humans determine the best sites (Yahoo originally did and DMOZ still attempts to do) have failed because of the size and scope of the job.

By and large, the algorithms of the major search engines do a fairly good job at determining the relative value of the websites. What does it matter if 90% of all websites are of little value if 90% of the top search results provide useful websites? I am sure that the algorithms will continue to get better and better. At some point, the worthless websites will be relegated to sitting on a server with little or no human traffic, other than those people who are specifically looking for the sites.

What a profoundly accurate statement in terms of everything in general, but when it comes to browsing the web I find that is not the case for two reasons. The first of these being that when I search for a website, I am very specific in what I require and therefore I end up with a positive ratio of results. Secondly I use the website StumbleUpon to find useful websites, and looking at the ratio of thumbs up against thumbs down I have a clear thumbs up majority (signifying usefulness or enjoyment or gain from visiting that page) against the negative.

I agree with Green Moon that over the period, with improved algorithm, the useless sites will be relegated in last pages of search query and will have almost no human traffic.

However, talking in percentage terms is not much value as the opinion will differ vastly from person to person.

Morever, even if 10% sites, at bare minimum, are useful than still net will be wonderful place to learn, share and entertain. Compare it to film industry, most of the films are flop at box-office but still all of us entertain ourselves with a few really good ones.